'Red October' was a gift from a friend spring 2007. It had a rough beginning when the soil in one of my older gardens proved to be too heavy; so I ended up putting it in a clay pot for a year to dry out. Amended the garden with lots of sand and compost and it's doing well now.

O thanks. I KNEW there was something else I was supposed to do with that picture. But yes, Definitely branching scapes. Maybe I should go look at the rest of my late bloomers when it stops raining. (Hush! I should not complain. We desperately need rain).

I went out this morning and noticed one of my Red October was looking weird. It turns out it is putting up one of those odd leafy scapes so it will flower way out of season. I have seen these rare things occur at random over the years but what's really unusual about this one is that about 8 feet away a Miss Ruby did the same thing this season (I posted those photos also.) Wondering if the odd Spring may have triggered something - where March is warm and gets things going only to have winter return in April and then 4 weeks of clouds and rain - confused everything. Both the Red October and Miss Ruby went into this garden last season - both out of pots I have had for a while.

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I had that happen to my 'Allan P. McConnell' border this year. The flower scape was up0 before the rest of the plant emerged. But as David said, it gives you a good opportunity to possibly get seeds from it.